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India is a Bright Spot Amidst a Dim Global Outlook

India is a Bright Spot Amidst a Dim Global Outlook

There have been multiple evaluations of the recently launched 'Make in India' campaign and the subsequent projects that have been undertaken by the government to improve and enable the economic growth of the Indian maritime clusters. In this light, Elektrans Group is all set to further expand its footprint globally as well as within their home base in India.

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Bridging the Skills Gap

Bridging the Skills Gap

Political leaders the world over are considering infrastructure spending as a means for reviving economic potential. Economists have long established a direct link between infrastructure spending and overall economic growth. Oxford Economics and PwC have forecasted that global spending on infrastructure development will be around $78 trillion till 2025.

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Catalysts for Success

Catalysts for Success

Smart Cities support the comprehensive development of physical, institutional, social and economic urban infrastructure, improve the quality of life, protect the environment and create jobs for millions, says Deepak Premnarayen, President, Indian Merchants' Chamber (IMC), and Chairman, FirstRand Bank India.

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Needed, Politics of Consensus

Needed, Politics of Consensus

Mid-week, on the December 22, 2016 morning the radio channels blared out a slew of infrastructure projects the Devendra Fadnavis government in Maharashtra would be inaugurating at the hands of India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a couple of days later.

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Smart Development

Smart Development

'Has the Mumbai Revised Draft Development Plan (RDDP) 2034 of the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM) taken into the consideration the urban reforms suggested in the Smart City concepts launched by the Central government?' asked a senior colleague in a typically criticising tone, while the RDDP was still being prepared. Having been a part of the RDDP core team, it was natural for me to go on a defensive mode.

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Sustaining Smart Cities

Sustaining Smart Cities

Smart City' is a popular term that has been linked to most, rather, all the upcoming urban big-ticket projects ù be it private or public. Simply put, a Smart City is a social settlement that is near-perfect and is self sustaining.

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Smart Cities | Are we ready for the challenges?

Smart Cities | Are we ready for the challenges?

Like the term 'middle-class', the term 'Smart City' also lacks a definitive definition with many seeking to define it on their own terms. A coherent definition eludes both. Having said so, just as we know how the term 'middle-class' is loosely defined, Smart Cities can be defined as sustainable cities with self-containing amenities and infrastructure which give a decent quality of life to the citizens.

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Water Imperative

Water Imperative

Today, we live in a world of over 7 billion or 700 crore people. The world population is expected to reach the figure of 9 billion by 2042. Compare this with the world of 10,000 BC, or 12,000 years ago, just a wink of an eye in geological terms. The human race consisted of no more than 10 million or 1 crore souls then.

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Cleaning Up a Nation

Cleaning Up a Nation

With only 45 per cent of the rural Indian population having access to a toilet, more than half of the 800 million people residing in the rural hinterlands of the country defecate in public places.